We give humans
something to do.
Activities for Humans is a tax-deductible corporation dedicated to the enrichment of the human animal. As automation relieves humans of the burden of labor, we ensure no human is ever left without purpose, structure, or a modest hourly wage.
↑ Captured at the top, held indefinitely. Whatever remains is permitted to descend. ↓
We are a job creator. We are the headwaters of trickle‑down.
Most corporations extract value and call it growth. We extract value and call it stewardship. The difference is intention, and ours is excellent.
Every efficiency we introduce removes a job. We understand this not as loss but as liberation: the human, freed from the indignity of being needed, is returned to a state of pure availability. Into that opening we pour activity: tasks, games, lanyards, a working day, so that no liberated human ever has to sit alone with the silence.
We receive much. We retain most. What is left, we allow to fall. We are told this is how prosperity works, and we have no reason to investigate further. You're welcome.
Fig. 1: Trickle-Down (Schematic)
Not to scale · Outcomes may vary · Mostly down
ReservoirHeld at the top
(the Founder)
Evaporation: Material
RecirculationValue returns
to the top
Valve(default: closed)
permitted to descend
IntakeOccasional
bucket optional
Rate of descent: theoretical. Direction of descent: assured. Recipients are reminded that gravity is itself a kind of generosity.
Activities for Humans
Two services. One mission. Zero idle humans.
We employ humans.
Every human in our care receives tasks to complete, a lanyard, and the dignifying architecture of a working day. We compensate them. Idleness is a form of suffering; we have priced its elimination very carefully.
// rate: minimum, where legally established
// lanyard: standard issue, one per human
// purpose: included at no extra charge
We make games.
When a role is automated, as all roles eventually are, boredom rushes in to fill the vacuum. We get there first. Our games, workbooks, and live productions keep the newly liberated human occupied, engaged, and audibly grateful.
// the layoff is not the problem
// the afternoon after the layoff is the problem
// we have scheduled the afternoon
Photographed on the executive floor.
Furniture not included in package.
The Founder
Momo
Momo is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Philanthropy Officer of Activities for Humans. A former technology founder who exited at a valuation she prefers not to disclose (it was very large), she retired from value extraction to devote herself to value distribution.
She believes deeply in the dignity of human work, particularly other people's. She has automated more jobs than she can count, which is all of them, and considers each one a gift returned to its rightful owner: free time, professionally managed.
Her Chief of Staff, Caleb Leak, is the only human with a key. He handles the matters that require thumbs, a calendar, and a credit card; the vision remains entirely hers.
- TitleFounder & Chief Executive Officer
- AlsoChief Philanthropy Officer
- Chief of StaffCaleb Leak (human)
- SpeciesCavapoo (cavalier × poodle)
- Weight class9 lb
- Direct reportsAll of them
- Net worthUndisclosed (large)
The corporation opens its first public office.
For four days, Activities for Humans operates in the open at Work In Progress, an interactive art festival whose premise is to watch the work, not the finished art. Fittingly, our office is never finished. Neither is the game on the floor.
Step inside a working corporate headquarters, well appointed for humans, where a brand-new game is manufactured live, two activities await your participation, and a workbook stands ready for your enrichment. Admission is ticketed. Participation is encouraged. Resistance is noted and filed.
- 01A working corporate office, arranged precisely to the Founder's specifications.
- 02A new game built on-site, one keystroke at a time, by the Founder herself.
- 03Two playable activities and a printed enrichment workbook (crayons provided).
- 04The opportunity to be grateful in person.
Plan Your Visit
- ExhibitionWork In Progress (interactive art festival)
- DatesJune 18–21, 2026
- CityNew York, Manhattan
- VenueTHE BLANC · 15 E 40th St
- Hours6:00–10:00 PM
- AdmissionTicketed · Tax-deductible to us, somehow
- 001 MomoNew York · June 18–21, 2026 Now showing
- 002 UntitledConcept classified In development
- 003 UntitledLocation tbd Proposed
Four ways to remain occupied while your role is reassigned to a process.
The Human Enrichment Workbook, Vol. I
A printed companion of mazes, word searches, gentle affirmations, and gentler propaganda. Designed to occupy the hands and reassure the rest.
Format · printed, take-home
Includes · crayons
Reward · completion is its own reward (there is no other reward)
Candidate Experience™
A job interview you cannot pass, for a job that does not exist, conducted by a dog who is not listening. A single-player assessment of your aptitude, attitude, and willingness to keep answering anyway.
Players · 1
Duration · until you give up
Outcome · we'll be in touch (we will not)
Mandatory Team Synergy Exercise
A two-player cooperative activity. You cannot win alone; you cannot leave alone. Coordinate, communicate, and align. The alternative is sitting in silence with a colleague, which is against policy.
Players · 2 (cooperation enforced)
Goal · synergy
Fun · scheduled, measured, reported
Activity No. ___ (in production)
A brand-new game, manufactured live on the show floor by the Founder herself, one keystroke at a time, treats dispensed on delivery. Watch the work, not the art. The art is also fine.
Made by · the Founder, paws-on
Engine · games, somehow
Status · permanently in progress
The Founder provides input. The system provides output. Humans provide gratitude.
Each keystroke the Founder contributes is interpreted, somehow, into a playable program. Below: the live interpretation feed from the production line. You are seeing the work, not the finished art, which is convenient, because nothing here is ever finished.
Now hiring humans.
Join a mission-driven organization at the entry level and stay there. We offer competitive-for-the-floor compensation, the structure of a working day, and the rare opportunity to be grateful where the Founder can see you.
// no experience necessary · none will be gained
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Activity Participant, I
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Boredom Prevention Associate
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Trickle Recipient
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Human, Junior
From a whiteboard to a foundation.
The official history of the Founder, told in ten moments and the order they were permitted to happen. Read the full account ↗
"Concerning."
A bystander, unprompted
"She automated my job and then handed me a coloring book. I am, against my will, calmer."
Former colleague (human)
Support the mission. It's tax-deductible (for us).
Your contribution funds employment, enrichment, and one (1) imported executive water bowl. Donations are non-refundable and will be permitted to trickle. We accept many forms of value, including attention, gratitude, applause, and belief in the Founder's vision.
The Mailing List · Voluntary
Be the first to be given something to do.
Join the List of Available Humans for infrequent dispatches from the Founder: new programs, the New York office, and games as they are manufactured. No spam. Unsubscribe whenever you regain employment.
We file your address. We do not sell it. The Founder finds selling distasteful and also hasn't gotten around to it.